Lantern-carrying attachment.



Patented Jan. 30, I900.

R. L. SMITH.

LANTERN CARRYING ATTACHMENT.

' (Application filed May 4. 1899.)

(No Model.)

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NITE STATES ROBERT LEE SMITH, OF PALOS, ALABAMA.

LANTERN-CARRYING ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,499. dated January 30, 1900.

Application filed May 4., 1899. Serial No. 715,544. (No model.)

To (tZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT LEE SMITH, of Palos, in the county of Jefferson and State of Alabama, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lantern-Carryin g Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object lantern-carrying attachments forlanterns,wherebyalantern may be conveniently secured to the leg of a person on horseback and whereby it may also be securely and yet detachably held on the dashboard of a wagon or the like when desired.

The invention consists in certain details of construction, which I shall first describe and then point out in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved lantern-carrying attachments secured to the ankle of a rider. Fig. 2 is a rear view of said improvement. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of dashboard attachment detached from the remainder of the carrier. Fig. 4 is a detail view illustrating the manner of attaching the bail, and Fig. 5 is a detail of one of the angular spring-arms.

The lantern-holder consists of a series of verticallydisposed Wires 11, connected together by the upper, middle, and lower wire rings 12, of which the upper ring forms the support for the draft-hood of the lantern. (Not shown.) Between their ends the wires are bent inwardly toward each other to form a contracted portion, around which a Wire ring 13 is fitted, and a cylinder 14 is held within the holder at the contracted portion by the encircling wire ring 13, to which it is secured by solder or the like. The cylinder l4is adapted to detachably hold the base 15 of a lantern, the latterbeing secured in the cylinder,

preferably by a stud and bayonet-slot 16, and

being adapted to support the burner and chimney of a lantern. As these last-named parts may be of any well-known form, I deem it unnecessary to show them.

The upper ends of two diametrically opposite vertical wires 11 are bent to form bailcars 17, in whose lower members corresponding ears 18 on the bail are adapted to be detachably fitted.

For the purpose of attaching a reflector to the lantern-holder and to enable it to be carried on the dashboard of a vehicle upper and lower socket-pieces 19, four in number, are secured one near the top and another near the bottom of two of the vertical wires 11, the openings of the lower socket-pieces facing the openings in the upper, and two angular spring-arms 21, with bent ends 20, are adapted to be inserted in the socket-pieces 19, being held therein by spring tension. The arms 21 are coiled twice between their ends, and a rectangular wire-spring frame 22 has two of its sides laid along the spring-arms 21, between the coils of the same and is secured to said arms by clips 23, projecting rearwardly from the reflector 24:. Midway of its upper side the continuity of the frame 22 is interrupted and coils 25 are formed, the wire extending downwardly to form the lockingtongue 26, whereby to secure the lanternholder on a dashboard, as shown in Fig. 3.

Now it will be noted, referring to Fig. 4, that when the lantern-holder is carried by the bail the cars 18 on the bail will abut against the upper members of the ears 17, and thus prevent the holder from swinging out of a vertical plane, which it would otherwise do owing to the excess of weight on one side caused by the reflector and dashboard attachment.

In order to convenientlyattach the lanternholder to the ankle of a rider, sheet-metal loops 27 are rigidly attached to a vertical wire 11, next to one of the wires to which a springarm 21 is secured, and the said loops are located one near the top and one near the bottom of the said wire. Straps 28 are inserted through the loops and are adapted to be fastened around an ankle, as shown in Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1, The herein-described lantern-carrying attachment consisting of a frame formed with vertical wires and an upper and a lower socket in each of two adjacent wires, two angular spring-arms each having oppositely and outwardly bent ends adaptedto spring one into an upper and the other into alowersoeket, a rectangular wire frame formed with a springtongue and a reflector having rearwardly-extending clips securing the sides of the frame and the spring-arms together, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The herein-described lantern-carrying attachment, consisting of the lantern-holder formed of ertically-disposed wires connected at their ends by wire rings, four socket-pieces,

two of which is rigidly attached to the upper ends of two adjacent wires and the other being rigidly attached to the lower ends thereof, two angular spring-arms having bent ends 

